Paper flower wedding

It's been a long while since I last posted. It's not that I haven't been busy in the craft room, I just needed to take a break. I'm back in blogland but I'll be posting about more than just my paper projects from now on :)

What have I been up to?

Big News. Dannii and Ben announced their engagement at Christmas .... Wooohooo

Big Shock. We had just three months to prepare, they'd decided against a long engagement, and "Oh Mum, you'll do all my flowers for me won't you. I would really like paper flowers" ;) and it goes without saying the invites ....

Dannii found some invites she liked on Pinterest which I dutifully put my own spin on. She loved them.

Then she found a bouquet she loved which she asked me to recreate in her colours ...

I invited some really good crafty friends round to help (a really big THANK YOU to Sam, Chris and Cindy for ALL of your help) we needed to make a lot of flowers. Then we needed to make a lot more because they just don't go as far as you think.

I finally finished putting together the bouquets, one for her, and one each for her two bridesmaids and I have to admit I loved the finished item, so much so I really wanted one for myself. They were so pretty. Unfortunately neither Dannii nor her bridesmaids wanted to give them back LOL

I really thought after all the cutting and rolling, I'd have enough flowers left for the cake .... Did I mention she also wanted paper flowers on her cake ... Cue more crazy flower cutting and rolling ....

I also have to thank my wonderful friend Monica Gale for the wedding cake. As soon as Dannii announced she was getting married up North I knew I had to ask Moni to make her cake, and she didn't fail me. It was AMAZING.

I loved all the paper flowers so much I then went on to make the button-holes and corsages

They had a fabulous day .... The new Mr & Mrs

 

 

If you can't get crafty

If you can't get crafty, get tidy ... I'm still not up to crafting so I'm doing the next best thing (in my world) and tidying the craft room, clearing some of the stash that I'm not using.  So watch out on eBay for lots of cheap, hardly used (if at all!) bargains

MIA

Long time no blogging ... I'm sure you thought I'd given up crafting. In truth I haven't been in the craft room for sometime due to health issues which I won't go into.  But I have been sat on the sofa with my crochet hook, I'll post some photos of the finished product soon but here's a sneek preview.

I have managed to venture into the craft room today and create a card, it's taken me all day but I'm glad to be able to do something with glue, card and paper!

With this card I'm entering a few challenges: 

First of all Clearly Besotted's 'Seeing Spots' and as you can see there are more than a few spots to qualify, and I've used Stephanie's beautiful stamp set Butterfly Wishes.

For colour I've taken inspiration from both Color Throwdown and A Passion for Papertrey (if the team wi'll let me get away with the Kraft I've used).

For the design I popped over to Mojo Monday for some well needed layout inspiration, although as you can see I've juggled the layout just a tiny bit.

Supplies

Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Butterfly Wishes.  Papertrey Ink - Botanical Silhouettes, Polka Dot Basics II
Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake, So Saffron, Whisper White
DSP: SU - Designer Series paper stack
Ink: SU - Tempting Turquoise, Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo. Memento - Tuxedo Black. Versamark
Embellishments: SU Basic Rhinestones


With luck I'll get back into the craftroom sometime soon.

Thanks for visiting

Dawn
xxx

A Valentine

Found this picture on my camera roll, its the card I made for DH for Valentines Day.  Its a great design, especially for masculine cards.

 

 

Stamps: SU Tiny tags
Inks: Royal Velvet
Card stock: Ripe Avocado, Royal Velvet
DSP: PTI Pacific Vineyard
Tools: PTI tiny tags die, twine, dimensionals, Multipurpose liquid glue

Shabby Notebook

 

I had a plain notebook in a drawer, which I re-covered. I’m really quite pleased with the result.

Stamps: Established elegance, French foliage
Inks: Early espresso
Card stock: Very vanilla
DSP: Tea for Two, soft suede DSP stack
Accessories: Rhinestone basics pearl
Tools: Itty bitty shapes punch, Multipurpose liquid glue

Mother’s Day Cards

Mother’s Day crept up on me this year, I didn’t forget, it was just a little last minute.com so our two mum’s both received the same card, just ever so slightly different.

I love this colour combination, and the gorgeous stamps of course

The only difference between the two cards is one is laid portrait and the other landscape.

I love seam binding triple bows.

Stamps: Established Elegance, French Foliage, Elements of style
Inks: Elegant Eggplant, Certainly celery, Crumb cake, Early Espresso
Card stock: Perfect plum, certainly celery, Very vanilla
DSP: Crumb cake DSP stack
Accessories: Rhinestone basics jewels, Antique brads, Seam binding
Tools: vintage wallpaper embossing folder. Itty bitty shapes punch, Multipurpose liquid glue, stampin dimensionals

Simple Masculine Birthday Card

A simple masculine birthday card.

 

Stamps: PTI Think Big Favorites #12 Mini stamp set
Inks: Black
Card stock: Soft Suede, night of navy, marina mist, baja breeze, bashful blue
Accessories: buttons (stash), twine
Tools: PTI Tiny tags die, Square lattice Embossing folder, Square punch, Multipurpose liquid glue, stampin dimensionals

Shoe Box swap

I recently took part in a Shoe Box Swap.  What’s a Shoe Box Swap?

A shoebox swap is where each person makes up a project. They then make a “kit” for each person attending and in the box that is brought on the day will include all the kits, dies, punches, stamps and inks etc that each person needs to complete the project. Everyone gets to make one of each project and goes home with plenty of projects they’ve made one the day.

We all tried to make our projects something that could be completed within 10 minutes so all kits could be completed on the day.

All Supplies Stampin Up unless stated.
Stamps: Established Elegance, French Foliage, Elements of style
Inks: Crumb cake, Early Espresso, Baja breeze
Card stock: Baja breeze, Very vanilla
DSP: Tea for Two
Accessories: Rhinestone basics pearl, Antique brads, Very vanilla seam binding, Crochet trim
Tools: Itty bitty shapes punch, Multipurpose liquid glue, stampin dimensionals

40th Birthday

I made this card some time ago for a friend’s 40th, she (like me) isn’t into cutsie so when I saw Christina’s card I knew it would be ideal for an age card.

Stamps: Memorable Moments, PTI Big birthday wishes, Tiny stars from PTI banner builder stamp set
Inks: Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Perfect Plum
Card stock: Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Perfect Plum
Tools: Multipurpose liquid glue, stampin dimensionals

I will definitely be filing this sketch away, its one that can made up in masculine colours for a man.

Love Actually

Its swap time, this month the theme is ‘Love Actually’ and rather than make a valentines card or similar I decided to made a Photo purse, I’d seen some on Pinterest made with those paper CD holders, but I sat played with some cardstock and came up with my own version.   I thought my swappee could use it to hold photos of their loved one.

Products used: All Stampin'Up! unless otherwise stated

Stamps: Layered Labels
Inks: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Tangerine Tango
Card stock: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Summer Starfruit, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White
DSP: Sycamore Street
Accessories: Rhinestone basic jewels, 1/4” Night of navy stitched grosgrain ribbon.
Tools: Itty Bitty Shapes, Boho Blossoms, Bird Builders and Tab (ret) punches. Bigshot. Finishing Touches Edgelits, Hearts Collection Framelits, Apothecary Accents Framelits.  Tombow, Stampin’ Dimensionals.

It opens up to reveal two heart picture frames

Which have pull out tabs

Hope my swapee likes it